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Title Hearing Loss : Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits
Published National Academies Press 2004

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents Basics of sound, the ear, and hearing -- Tests of the auditory system and its functions -- Testing adult hearing : conclusions and recommendations -- Sensory aids, devices, and prostheses -- Impact of hearing loss on daily life and the workplace -- Hearing loss in children
Summary Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments
Subject Deafness -- Diagnosis -- United States
Disability evaluation -- United States
Disability insurance -- United States
Social security -- United States.
Deafness -- Diagnosis.
Disability evaluation.
Disability insurance.
Social security.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Robert A. Dobie and Susan Van Hemel.
ISBN 1282084135
9781282084131